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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [patch 11/18] dirsync
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"Peter J. Braam" wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I think this patch is actually pretty important - could we please have
> this, or something like this?
> 

Well `-o sync' will give the same result.  dirsync is just a speedup.

I should have mentioned: untarring a kernel tree with dirsync is 4x to
5x faster than `-o sync', but still tons slower (5x?) than default.